@RazorSharp wrote:
@Mominohio wrote:
@RazorSharp wrote:
Speaking of mosaic items, after Kringle Express hit it out of the park last year with the porcelain bells, today they brought us H209515 - Mosaic Glass Holiday Bell. The bells look so pretty, but none of the color choices of red, green, blue or gold go with my decor. You know what color would have gone with my decor? Silver. Kringle Express made a stinking bell in 4 colors, including gold, but left out silver. I guess it's okay. It's not like they wrote a Christmas carol about Slver Bells or anything. Le sigh.
Those bells caught my eye @RazorSharp and I noticed the lack of silver.
There was something about the shape of them that could have been better done. And the ribbon on top looked like a last ditch effort to 'top it off' when they couldn't figure out something else.
Loved the idea, again, just the execution wasn't as good as it could have been. The colors were certainly vibrant, but during the presentation, it seemed like there wasn't much light. I'm measuring everything against the P&H gourd I got this year. Stunning!
@Mominohio I thought the bells looked a bit like pears from certain angles, so I understand what you mean about the shape. I think the bow on top was to validate it as a bell, not a pear in the same way that the reason they took a bite out of the apple symbol for the Apple company was because they realized it looked like a cherry if they didn't.
The strange thing about not offering a Silver Bell, aside from the disacknowledgement of the song, is that the silver option in mosaic items is always so beautiful. If you look at the silver option in items like H202967 or H208694, you could almost imagine how stunning the bells could look in that color.
I've been so disenchanted with the Kringle Express brand this season. The quality and taste has been so subpar that this item's lack of a silver option is sort of the faceplant in the palm, cherry on top moment that makes me think their buyer really needs to be kicked to the curb. Wouldn't being a buyer for a QVC home decor brand be an amazing job???
@RazorSharp
I certainly don't know at least two things.
First, what criteria Q has for someone to be employed as a home decor buyer for the company. Perhaps they have degrees up the wazoo, I don't know, but I certainly think they are missing the mark more and more as the years progress.
And the second, is what it takes to become an 'interior design expert' that Q often introduces their various vendors as.
What I do know is that many of us submit ideas here, and many of us are long time home decor buyers from the Q. I've suggested it before, and think it still would be a good idea, for Q to have a focus group of sorts, made of people who have bought from Q for years, to be polled, sampled, questioned, interviewed about upcoming home decor choices/styles/brands/lines/color options etc (before they buy the next season's goods!). They could randomly choose different customers, show them choices, and use the feedback to have a better finger on the pulse of their devoted customers.
How expensive and difficult would that really be with today's technology? Simply choose a sampling of known home decor customers, send an email with a 'survey' of sorts and consider the input of the people who are actual spending money.
There are certainly enough differences in all our styles, likes and dislikes that I'm sure they would get a nice cross section.
Seems like it would be better than the 'wait and see if it sells' kind of practice they seem to use now.
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